Searching for "MERIDEN"

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  • If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "MERIDEN":
    Place name County Entry Source
    ALLESLEY Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; near the Northwestern railway, 2 miles NW of Coventry. It has a post office under Coventry. Acres Imperial
    BERKESWELL, or Berkswell Berkshire
    Warwickshire
    Meriden district, Warwick; on the Birmingham and Stafford railway, 6 miles W of Coventry. It has a station on the railway Imperial
    BICKENHILL Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; on the Northwestern railway and the Warwick canal, 2 miles NW of Hampton-Junction r. station, and 8 SE of Birmingham Imperial
    COLESHILL Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick. The town stands on the river Cole, adjacent to the Hampton line of the Birmingham and Derby Imperial
    CORLEY Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; 3½ miles W of Longford and Exhall r. station, and 4½ NW of Coventry. Post Imperial
    COVENTRY Warwickshire Meriden and Foleshill. The municipal borough is co-extensive with the parliamentary borough, exclusive of Radford hamlet. Real property of the p. borough Imperial
    FILLONGLEY Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; near Arley and Fillongley railway station, 6 miles NW by N of Coventry. It has a post Imperial
    HAMPTON-IN-ARDEN Warwickshire Meriden district, and a parish partly also in Solihull district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Blythe, contiguous to the Hampton Imperial
    LEA-MARSTON Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Tame, near Whitacre r. station, 2¼ miles N of Coleshill Imperial
    MAXSTOKE Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; on the river Blythe, adjacent to the Hampton and Whitacre link of the Midland railway, 2¾ miles Imperial
    Meriden Warwickshire remains of an ancient cross, once regarded as marking the centre of England; Meriden Hall and Meriden House are seats. Bartholomew
    MERIDEN Warwickshire Meriden Hall belongs to the Digbys, and is occupied by J. Darlington, Esq. Meriden House belongs to Dr. Kittermaster. Strawberry Imperial
    Packington, Great Warwickshire Meriden and 7 miles NW. of Coventry, 2451 ac., pop. 239; Packington Hall is the seat of the Earl of Aylesford Bartholomew
    PACKINGTON (Great) Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; on the river Blythe, 2½ miles N E of Hampton-Junction r. station, and 2½ N W of Meriden Imperial
    PACKINGTON (Little) Warwickshire Meriden. Post-town, Meriden, under Coventry. Acres, 1, 110. Real property, £1, 328. Pop., 124. Houses, 28. The manor Imperial
    SHELDON Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; 1 mile SW of Marston-Green r. station, and 4½ SW of Coleshill. It has a post Imperial
    SHUSTOKE Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; 2 miles ESE of Whitacre-Junction r. station, and 3 ENE of Coleshill. It has a post Imperial
    WARWICKSHIRE, or Warwick Warwickshire Meriden, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Foleshill, Coventry, Rugby, Solihull, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Alcester, Shipston-on-Stour, and Southam. The county town Imperial
    WHITACRE (Nether) Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; containing Whitacre-Junction r. station, and 3¼ miles ENE of Coleshill. It has a post-office Imperial
    WHITACRE (Over) Warwickshire Meriden district, Warwick; 2½ miles ESE of Whitacre Junction r. station. Post town, Nether Whitacre, under Birmingham. Acres, 1,375. Real Imperial
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